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New Civil Engineer APRIL 2018 Inside: Contractors face rail cuts p16 Cumbria fl ood recovery p50 New Civil Engineer APRIL 2018 1993: TWYFORD DOWN 2018: STONEHENGE? WITH MORE CONTROVERSIAL PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE, 25 YEARS ON WE EXPLORE HOW ENGINEERS CAN BUILD PUBLIC SUPPORT In the UK, 2.44 million properties are at risk of flooding by rivers and seas. 3 million more are at risk from surface water. Source: Institution of Civil Engineers DO YOU CHOOSE TO SINK OR THINK? Join the debate about the future of drainage iPad 9:45 AM 100% HOME LEARN MORE CONTACT Time is running out to share your thoughts on the Future of Drainage. IT’S TIME TO THINK NOT SINK Welcome to the drainage brain storm, an initiative to promote ‘out of the box’ thinking around the connected challenges posed by flood waters, climate change and urban development. To the open question ‘What is the future of drainage?’ enter your ideas, suggestions or answers in CHOOSE TO THINK the box provided. Your response can be as short or as detailed as you wish. Then click submit and NOT SINK complete your details. We’ll enter all contributions into a draw to win one of two iPad Pros. It’s time to think not sink. Enter your thoughts on the future of drainage below THOUGHT STARTERS I think the future of drainage is… Is it time to stop talking and act? What role could information technology play? Is managing water quality as vital as water quantity? Are SuDS the answer? Join the conversation at: futureofdrainage.co.uk NEXT Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Cookie Policy 60650_31 NCE April Issue.indd Pg1 06/03/2018 10:01 New Civil Engineer MAJOR PROJECTS MUST PUT CUSTOMERS FIRST MARK HANSFORD EDITOR here is much engineering excitement this month about ance the need to deliver desired improvements for customers, while proposals for a high speed rail version of the M25, as also being sensitive to the needs of affected local communities? proposed by Expedition. There is also excitement As we discuss this month, there is a real need to make the public feel T about a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland, that projects are “done with them, not to them”. proposed by the Scottish Government. Tim Jones has much to do with the solution. He is in charge of Both are bold ideas, and both have engineering and economic merit. delivering the Lower Thames Crossing for Highways England and he is But while we engineers are getting giddy about these tantalising of the mistakes of the past. As he tells us this month: “I think what we grands projets, the public is getting excited in rather different ways did to Twyford Down was absolutely outrageous. It is the worst piece of about another bunch of projects. civil engineering I think I have ever seen in my life”. In Sheffield the outrage about the city council’s tree felling policy in the name of a £2bn PFI highways improvement programme has taken another turn for the worse this month, with the latest attempt to fell one It is not so inconceivable that tree requiring 33 police officers and 20 security staff to deter protesters. And there is no sign of a let up in public fury, with a funding-raising we could see the return of concert fronted by Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker selling out in minutes. scenes witnessed at Twyford Down The day job for Sheffield’s contractor Amey’s engineers really cannot be a great one right now. and then at the Newbury bypass Those engineers are not alone, as tempers are flaring in north west London, where an ancient woodland is soon to be bulldozered in the back in the early 1990s name of High Speed 2. There, a High Court injunction has just been granted to bar eight protesters from demonstrating on the site of the “ Colne Valley viaduct. Good luck with that – Sheffield’s got one of those One of the challenges presented by the current planning regime is and it has not done much good. that debate about the need for major schemes is taken away from pub- This is serious stuff. If you follow the right people on Twitter you’ll lic inquiries, with that decision already having been made through a soon see there are plenty more protest groups gearing up for action. national policy statement. Debate about those is aimed at professionals The mood has changed and it is not so inconceivable that we could see and it leaves the public feeling left out. the return of scenes witnessed at Twyford Down (our cover image) and One proposal on the table is for a French-style commission for public then at the Newbury bypass back in the early 1990s. engagement, which would act as a forum for debating major schemes at And this is all before we get stuck into the truly controversial the earliest possible stage. It was introduced in France in the late 1980s schemes that are coming up, mainly sitting on Highways England’s to- when it – like the UK – was having problems with protests against major do list. They include the Lower Thames Crossing, which will drive a six schemes – in its case its high speed rail network. or eight lane highway through the Kent countryside; the £260M Arun- As we report this month, it has served France – and French engineers del bypass running through the South Downs in West Sussex, and then – well. With the mood now one of protest, we might be well advised to the daddy of them all, the £1.6bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel. encourage our political paymasters to take a look. So how do engineers, and those that we advise, act to ensure we bal- l Mark Hansford is New Civil Engineer’s editor APRIL 2018 | NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 3 Contents NEW CIVIL ENGINEER APRIL 2018 MAGAZINE OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 03 Comment, 31 World View Report: Analysis & News Customer Focus 06 Lighthouse: We must act to make construction sector more secure 08 The Edit: HS1 to HS2 link proposed 09 The Edit: London City airport deck extension 12 Analysis: Engineers’ salaries rise 14 Analysis: Carillion fallout 18 Your View: Climate change 22 The Interview The industry is waking up to the fact that the public often feels alienated from decisions which determine what infrastructure is built. It also feels isolated from information which can help them travel more e ciently. This report examines how the industry can respond 22 Yorkshire Water’s Nevil Muncaster 32 Overview: How can the industry 40 What can be done to improve on innovations and its £1.1bn alliance better engage with the public, communication with transport users framework when planning major construction projects? 44 Debate: Changing attitudes to road 24 The Response: Wavin’s Martin works over the last 20 years Lambley on why innovation is good 4 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER APRIL 2018 New Civil Engineer Get news delivered daily Weekly Wrap and analysis delivered weekly with our newsletters. Sign-up at newcivilengineer.com Story of the week: A technical investigation into bridge collapses in South East Asia 16 Special 26 Business CONTRIBUTORS Report Culture Katherine Smale p16 Rail special report [email protected] Twitter @katsmaleNCE Jess Clark 26 Civic Engineers focuses on social p28 Tax and R&D 16 Tier 1 rail contractors are moving [email protected] out of rail enhancements work as value and engineering for people Twitter @jclarkjourno Network Rail refocuses spending 28 SMEs: How to get R&D tax credits 50 Tech 60 ICE Excellence Record Emily Ashwell p26 Civic Engineers [email protected] Jackie Whitelaw p32 Customer Focus 50 Engineers are painstakingly rebuiding 61 Engineering cities, Big Bang fair, Fiona McIntyre p50 Cumbria bridge a Cumbrian bridge which su ered Sustainable development goals, fi [email protected] serious scour during the 2015 fl oods Northern Powerhouse Twitter @fi onaMcNCE APRIL 2018 NEW CIVIL ENGINEER 5 Lighthouse ICE VIEWPOINT We must act to make the construction sector more secure he national debate overnight. There may well be some and news cycles can uncomfortable truths. Carillion’s be fickle and hard Construction represents over collapse should T to predict. However, 6% of the national economy; our one thing we can say social and economic well-being is be the canary down for sure, is that if it were not for the fundamentally underpinned by an domination of Brexit in the public’s efficient, effective infrastructure the mine. We must imagination then infrastructure system; and for every pound we would be at the front of everyone’s BY ART WE spend as a nation on infrastructure, take proper account mind. MASTER we generate £3 of economic activity. “of what has occurred Following a variety of high WHAT WOULD In essence, good infrastructure profile issues, from the Grenfell MASTER US allows society to be more tower tragedy to the collapse of productive and for its people to Carillion, our sector has been facing have better lives, and earn more. significant challenges. We should This means it is incumbent on us to canary down the mine. We must not shy away from tackling these make sure that the sector, which is take proper account of what has simply because other items have so hugely important, is as secure as occurred and take the appropriate taken primacy. Simply because they it can be. action. are not on the tip of everyone’s The current makeup of the Arguably more important, we tongues does not mean they are not industry means that most of the are divorcing deliverers from serious.
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